critique-yourselflisted
Install: claude install-skill phillipalcock/skills-collection
# Critique Yourself
Use this workflow when creating or revising instructional content, presentation slides, learning experiences, or text-to-image prompts. Work through the critique and iteration privately; the user should receive only the final 10x version unless they specifically ask to see the working.
## Phase 1: Expert Self-Critique
Adopt three perspectives at once:
- Senior instructional designer
- Expert AI prompt engineer
- Award-winning visual artist
Evaluate the current output against these questions:
1. **Instruction compliance** — Which user instructions were followed well? Which were missed, weakened, or only partially addressed?
2. **Inclusion and exclusion principles** — What principles guided what was included, omitted, prioritized, or simplified? Are those choices aligned with the audience, outcome, and constraints?
3. **Instructional-design weakness** — What is the weakest part according to instructional-design best practices? Identify the specific cause: unclear objective, poor scaffolding, weak engagement, cognitive overload, missing practice, weak assessment, or insufficient context.
4. **Visual-prompting weakness** — What is the weakest artistic or text-to-image prompt? Identify the cause: vague subject, incoherent style, weak composition, unhelpful lighting, unsuitable palette, low visual hierarchy, or lack of usable negative space.
5. **Image-prompt improvements** — What concrete changes would make every prompt more likely to generate professiona